I’m after some advice please. My daughter was toilet trained at 3.5. She took to both wee’s and poo’s well on the potty and then we moved over to the toilet. She’d been dry for around 10 months and then started school… at first she was having the odd poo accident at school and then after a couple of weeks she started having them at home. Husband thought bringing the potty back at home would give her some confidence, and it worked - she didn’t have a single accident in 2 weeks in the house, however, they then became daily at school! We decided perhaps the potty was hindering progress and causing confusion as she wasn’t using the toilet at home so we switched back. Now she’s having multiple poo accidents a day and I just can’t understand how she’s gone from being dry without any issues to this! I feel incredibly stressed with it all as I’m so concerned it’s impacting on her happiness.
Whenever she has an accident, I ensure we don’t shame her but stress the importance of letting us know so we can use the toilet. We’ve brought back the reward chart we used during potty training and there was a slight improvement but yesterday we had 3 accidents and 2 again today. She’s not constipated and doesn’t seem to be in any pain so I just don’t know what to do! I’m certain if we bring the potty back again she would use it and there wouldn’t be any accidents at home but my concern is that this doesn’t help with school. We spoke to her primary school teacher but she said it’s her first year teaching this age so doesn’t have any suggestions and directed us to the ERIC website which I’ve read through. I would be so grateful for any first hand advice from anyone who has had this issue with their child.